I've always said that I don't believe that the officials are 'THAT ' incompetent or blind - that they CHEAT - and now we get it from the horse's mouth !
Quite. Problem is, is there any EVIDENCE. Without that, and unless a significant number of PL referees are willing to corroborate the claim, it's just a statement from a somewhat embittered ex-referee.
I genuinely don't think you could have picked a worse example - That was probably the last match we won that Dean refereed he has done us over on numerous occasions, and was recently responsible for our usually placid manager getting a ban because of something that Dean said.